Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Streaming APIs with Tweepy

We can use the tweepy library to connect to the Twitter API. In this example, we will use a streaming API to process data in real time.

In the same way as we have done before with the Twitter module, we can create our function for connecting with OAuth credentials:

def twitter_connection(file):    '''Create the object from which the Twitter API will be consumed,    reading the credentials from a file, defined in path parameter.'''    (CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET,OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET) = open(file, 'r').read().splitlines()    # We instanced the authorization manager    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET)    auth.set_access_token(OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)    return (tweepy.API(auth), auth)

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